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Peacemakerswho sow inpeace raise aharvest ofrighteousness.—James 3: 18Cultivating Peace:Courage, Conscience andResistance to WarPeace Sunday 2006
ResourcesThere is a wealth of resources available on the topic of peacemaking and resistance to war.Check out your church library, regional resource centre, or MCC’s resource catalogue atwww.thenovgroup.com/MCC/catalog.Selected Printed MaterialsAlternative Service for Peace in Canada during World War II 1941-1946. Edited by A. J.Klassen. Mennonite Central Committee, B.C., Seniors for Peace, 1998. Contains stories ofCOs and a summarized timeline and essays.Bread for the Enemy: A Peace and Justice Lectionary. Compiled and edited by DorothyJean Weaver. Mennonite Church Peace & Justice Committee, 2001. Takes the readerthrough the Bible exploring this multifaceted peace.Choosing Against War: A Christian View. John D. Roth. Good Books, 2002. How mightChristians look on the world differently if they believed that God’s love was indeedstronger than their fears?Decide for Peace: A Guide for Personal Bible Study and Reflection on ConscientiousObjection. Eddy Hall. Newton, KS and Winnipeg, MB: Faith & Life Press, 1996. This is astudy resource particularly suited for youth.How to Teach Children Peace. Anne Meyer Byler. Herald Press, 2003. Practical suggestionsto help families pattern their lives after Jesus’ words and actions while dealing withmodern stresses.Mennonite Peacemaking: From Quietism to Activism. Leo Driedger and Donald B.Kraybill. Scottdale and Waterloo: Herald Press, 1994. Traces the transformation ofMennonite peacemaking—from passive non-resistance to active participation in thepolitical order—in the twentieth century.The Path of Most Resistance. Melissa Miller and Phil M. Sherk. Herald Press, 1982.Contains stories of conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War.At Peace and Unafraid: Public Order, Security, and the Wisdom of the Cross. Edited byDuane K. Friesen and Gerald W. Schlabach. Scottdale and Waterloo: Herald Press, 2005.Essays commissioned by MCC as part of a two-year study process seeking to discern anAnabaptist-Mennonite response to terrorism, violent conflict, disorder and insecurity.PEACE; JUST LIVE IT! Christine Neufeld. Faith and Life Press 1995. A ten-session Biblestudy curriculum for high school youth.A Peace Reader. Edited by E. Morris Sider and Luke Keefer Jr. Nappanee: EvangelPublishing House, 2002. A practical resource for everyone who seeks to serve Jesus Christand, it draws from the writings of leading Christian pacifists over the past century.Peacework: Prayer, Resistance, Community. Henri Nouwen. Orbis Books, 2005.33
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